The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-09
A STEAMER LOST.
At Least Twenty Men Perish
On in the Sea.
HEROIC LIFE SAVING CREWS.
The Vessel Going to Pieces-ARaira
at the Capita1-That Railway
HOrrOr-Other Notes,
German Steamer Wrecked.

D4MNECK, Va, January s.-The
Signal Corps Station at Cape Henry,
Va, reports the German ship Eliza
beth, of Bremen, ashore at Pam, to-
day, fourteen miles south of Port
Henry. The crew were lost; also the
| captain and two men of the Little
Island Life Saving Station, and two
men of the Damneck, Va, Lie Saving
Crew, who drowned while attempting
to rescue the ships crew.
NORFOLK. January 8.-One of the
most disastrous shipwrecks which ever
aoccu red on the Virginia coast happened
at 2 O'Clock this morning near the
Little Island Life Saving Station, IA
miles from Henry South. Not less
than twenty, and possibly more lives
were lost, among them Eye of the life
saving men, who in the discharge of
their duty were drowned. The morning
was bitterly cold and binding snow
storms prevailed with the wind blowing
gale from the northwest. During
lull in the storm the life saving patrol
from the Little Island Life Saving Sta
ton sighted
LARGE SHIP STRANDED
on a bar about 900 yards from the
shore: When he saw the vessel he was
going to meet the patrol from Damneck
Station and exchange a check showing
that both patrolmen had been to the end
OF their beat. The Damneck patrol was
only few yards distant when the ves=
sci was sighted and both fired rockets
to notify the crew of the stranded ship
hot ha rod 49,. \
back to their respective stations and
gave the alarm. In a little while the
crews, with life boats and apparatus,
were abreast of the wreck.
THE BOOM OF A MORTAR
announced that the line had been shot
over TO the Inflated vessel. 1t was I'M
successful and a second was fired with
like result. After firing six unsuccess-
full shots, the life-saving men de-
termined 10 brave the furious sea and
death which seemed certain to await
their venture. The word of command
being given by Captain BLAME, of Life
Saving Station No. 4, known as Little
Island, six of the most expert boatmen
manned each boat. At his; command
the men gave way with will, and IN
moment both boats were
BREAsTING THE FURIOUS WAVES.
They reached the ship in safety, and
four of the ships crew were taken in
the llfeboat and ten in the ships boat,
which had been launched for that pur-
pose. The boats were headed for the
shore, and not word was spoken, for
! ho .f,,l f,io },
surrounded them. With steady pull
! the two boats were making good
! Roadway for the shore, when wave of
great power struck the boats, capsizing
them instantly, and pitching their
/ twenty-five occupants into the boiling
| sea. Then began desperate struggle
for life, and with many of the men 1T
was a prolonged one. The terrified
lfe-savers on the beach were powerless
to assist their drowning comrades or
unfortunate strangers.
THE DROWNING MEN
were carried southwark by the sea, and
some of them were washed ashore. AS
they came within reach they were
picked up and endeavors were made to
revive them, and in two instances with
success, although one of the two is
badly injured. The vessel is the Ger
man ship Elisabeth, Captain Halber-
stold, from Hamburg to Baltimore, and
not oneof her crew survives her wreck.
Her caro- is unknown, as the high seas
have thus far prevented any attempt to
reach her. 1t is thought that
SHE is LEAKING BADLY,
and at sunset her mast was thought to
be giving waE- Of the life saving crew
the GLOWING were lost: s
Abel Belanza, captain of No. 4, known
as Little Island.
J. w. hand, same station.
George W. Stone, same.
j. A. Belanza, of Damneck Station,
and brother of Abel.
Joseph Sarattley, of Damneck.
John Featheridge and Frank Telford,
of No. Station, were washed ashore
and resuscitated, but Featheridge is so
badly injured that it is thought he
cannot survive.